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Health geography is the application of geographical information, perspectives, and methods to the study of health, disease, and health care. Initially referred to as medical geography[1] it was based on the bio-medical model of health and grounded in the logical positivism philosophy. The social or socio-ecological model, adopts a more holistic approach to disease and illness. It emphasises treatment of the whole person and not just components of the system. Under this model, new illnesses (for eg. mental ill health) are recognised, and other types of medicine (for eg. complementary or alternative medicine) are combined with traditional medicine. This alternative methodological approach meant medical geography was broadened to incorporate philosophies such as structuration, structuralism social interactionalism and feminism etc, thus the field of health geography was born. Human geography is a branch of geography that focuses on the systematic study of patterns and processes that shape human interaction with the environment, with particular reference to the causes and consequences of the spatial distribution of human activity on the Earths surface. ...
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Development geography is the study of the Earths geography and its relationship with economic development. ...
Economic geography is the study of the widely varying economic conditions across the earth. ...
Environmental geography is the branch of geography that describes the spatial aspects of interactions between humans and the natural world. ...
Historical Geography is the study of the: Human Physical Fictional Theoretical and Real geographies of the past. ...
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Social geography studies how society affects geographical features and how environmental factors affect society. ...
Strategic geography is concerned with the control of, or access to, spatial areas that have an impact on the security and prosperity of nations. ...
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A disease is an abnormal condition of the body or mind that causes discomfort, dysfunction, or distress to the person afflicted or those in contact with the person. ...
Health care or healthcare is the prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well-being through the services offered by the medical, nursing, and allied health professions [1]. The organised provision of such services may constitute a healthcare system. ...
Medical geography by definition is the application of geographical information, perspectives, and methods to the study of health, disease, and health care. ...
Logical positivism (later referred to as logical empiricism, rational empiricism, or neo-positivism) is a philosophy that combines positivism—which states that the only authentic knowledge is scientific knowledge—with a version of apriorism—the notion that some propositional knowledge can be had without, or “prior toâ€, experience. ...
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It has been suggested that Complementary and alternative medicine be merged into this article or section. ...
The term traditional medicine is used with two main meanings. ...
Medical geography by definition is the application of geographical information, perspectives, and methods to the study of health, disease, and health care. ...
Structuration theory, in anthropology, maintains that a repeated cultural practice builds social structure, and that practices are dictated by the social structure. ...
Structuralism is a general approach in various academic disciplines that explores the interrelationships between fundamental elements of some kind, upon which some higher mental, linguistic, social, cultural etc structures are built, through which then meaning is produced within a particular person, system, culture. ...
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Areas of study Health geography can provide a spatial understanding of a population's health, the distribution of disease in an area, and the environment's effect on health and disease. It deals also with accessibility to health care and spatial distribution of health care providers. The study is considered a subdiscipline of human geography, however, it requires an understanding of other fields such as epidemiology, climatology. Human geography is a branch of geography that focuses on the systematic study of patterns and processes that shape human interaction with the environment, with particular reference to the causes and consequences of the spatial distribution of human activity on the Earths surface. ...
Epidemiologic studies are generally categorized as descriptive, analytic (aiming to examine associations, commonly hypothesized causal relationships), and experimental (a term often equated with clinical or community trials of treatments and other interventions). ...
Climatology is the study of climate, and is a branch of the atmospheric sciences. ...
History of health geography A classic piece of research in health (or medical) geography was done in 1854 as cholera gripped London. Death tolls rang around the clock from church towers and the people feared that they were being infected by vapors coming from the ground. A physician John Snow thought that, if he could locate the source of the disease, it could be contained. He drew maps showing the homes of people who had died of cholera and the locations of water pumps. He found that one pump, the public pump on Broad Street, was central to most of the victims. He figured that infected water from the pump was the culprit. He instructed the authorities to remove the handle to the pump, making it unusable. After that the number of new cholera cases decreased.
Geography of Health Care Provision Although health care is a public good, it is not 'pure'. In other words, it is not equally available to all individuals. The geography of health care provision has much to do with this. Demand for public services is continuously distributed across space, broadly in accordance with the distribution of population, but these services are only provided at discrete locations. Inevitably therefore, there will be inequalities of access in terms of the practicality of using services, transport costs, travel times and so on. Geographical or 'locational' factors (e.g. physical proximity, travel time) are not the only aspects which influence access to health care. Other types (or dimensions) of accessibility to health care except for geographical (or spatial) are social, financial and functional. Social accessibility to health care depends on race (like separate hospitals for white and black people), age, sex and other social characteristics of individuals, important here is also relationship between patient and the doctor. Financial depends upon the price of a particular health care and functional reflects the amount and structure of provided services. This can vary among different countries or regions of the world. Access to helth care is influenced also by factors such as opening times and waiting lists that play an important part in determining whether individuals or population sub-groups can access health care – this type of accessibility is termed 'effective accessibility'. In metaphysics and statistics, the word individual, while sometimes meaning a person, more typically describes any numerically singular thing. ...
The location of health care facilities depends largely on the nature of the health care system in operation, and will be heavily influenced by historical factors due to the heavy investment costs in facilities such as hospitals and surgeries. Simple distance will be mediated by organisational factors such as the existence of a referral system by which patients are directed towards particular parts of the hospital sector by their GP. Access to primary care is therefore a very significant component of access to the whole system. In a 'planned' health care system, we would expect the distribution of facilities to fairly closely match the distribution of demand. By contrast, a market-oriented system might mirror the locational patterns that we find in other business sectors, such as retail location. We may attempt to measure either potential accessibility or revealed accessibility, but we should note that there is a well-established pattern of utilisation increasing with access, i.e. people who have easier access to health care use it more often. Health care or healthcare is the prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well-being through the services offered by the medical, nursing, and allied health professions [1]. The organised provision of such services may constitute a healthcare system. ...
A hospital today is an institution for professional health care provided by physicians and nurses. ...
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Primary care may be provided in community health centres. ...
Health care or healthcare is the prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well-being through the services offered by the medical, nursing, and allied health professions [1]. The organised provision of such services may constitute a healthcare system. ...
The supply and demand model describes how prices vary as a result of a balance between product availability at each price (supply) and the desires of those with purchasing power at each price (demand). ...
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Look up Access in Wiktionary, the free dictionary This is a list of articles related to the notion of access: information transfer, computer storage, telecommunication and computer networks: ACCESS.bus access charge access method access time broadband Internet access broadband wireless access code division multiple access Common User Access dial...
Look up Access in Wiktionary, the free dictionary This is a list of articles related to the notion of access: information transfer, computer storage, telecommunication and computer networks: ACCESS.bus access charge access method access time broadband Internet access broadband wireless access code division multiple access Common User Access dial...
Health care or healthcare is the prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well-being through the services offered by the medical, nursing, and allied health professions [1]. The organised provision of such services may constitute a healthcare system. ...
References - ↑ Page 221. Andrews, G. J. (2002). Towards a more place-sensitive nursing research: an invitation to medical and health geography. Nursing Inquiry, 9(4), 221–238.
External links - International Journal of Health Geographics
- Health and Place (journal)
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